by Pebbla Wallace, LACHS Board Member

In February Los Angeles (and the United States) celebrates Black History Month.  In doing so, the LACHS would like to recognize some of our historical pioneers, and the major contributions they have made to the City of Angels.

by Pebbla Wallace, LACHS Board Member

Robert William Stewart (1850-1931) – the forgotten story of first African American police officer in California serving at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)

Watch the recorded presentation Photography of Los Angeles Transit Construction - with Ken Karagozian and guest speaker Richard McLane

Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2022 LACHS Scholarship recipients:

Militant Machismo: Hypermasculinity & The Brown Berets
Hector Gamboa

The San Diego Blood Sisters: Highlighting Queer Women’s Activism During the AIDS Epidemic
Zachery Roethlisberger

Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2022 LACHS Scholarship recipients:

It’s Complicated: Cross Purpose Politics and Reassessing Community in New Deal Era Whittier
Christopher Empett

Shared Experiences and Regional Kinship Webs: Mid-Twentieth Century New Mexico, México, and Los Angeles
Jerry Sisneros

Watch the recorded presentation Hollywood’s Trains & Trolleys with Marc Wanamaker

It was around 10 a.m. on January 14, 1938, when Harry Raymond went out to his garage in Boyle Heights, turned the key on the ignition of his car and his engine bolted out of the hood of his car, filling Harry’s body with 186 pieces of shrapnel. The explosion was loud enough to hear throughout the neighborhood. Harry was rushed to the hospital where he received 100 stitches and was treated for multiple fractures and chest punctures.